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Thriving in the Marketing Environment: The World is Flat

Thriving in the Marketing Environment: The World is Flat. Chapter Objectives. Understand business ethics and explain how marketers practice ethical business behavior Explain how firms practice social responsibility

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Thriving in the Marketing Environment: The World is Flat

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  1. Thriving in the Marketing Environment: The World is Flat

  2. Chapter Objectives • Understand business ethics and explain how marketers practice ethical business behavior • Explain how firms practice social responsibility • Understand the big picture of international marketing, including world trade flows and the decision criteria firms use in their decisions to go global • Explain the WTO, economic communities, and how countries protect local industries by establishing roadblocks to foreign companies • Understand how factors in the external business environment influence marketing strategies and outcomes • Explain the strategies that a firm can use to enter global markets • Understand the arguments for standardization versus localization of marketing strategies in global markets

  3. Real People, Real Choices: Decision Time at Tupperware • Tupperware Brands Corporation (Rick Goings) • How to refresh brand perception? • Option 1: increase advertising in new markets • Option 2: utilize public relations • Option 3: build demand using word-of-mouth

  4. Welcome to theNew Era of Marketing • Adopt a global focus • Managers emphasis social profit: net benefit for a firm and society from the firm’s ethical practices and socially responsible behavior

  5. Doing Good: Ethical Behavior in the Marketplace • Business ethics: basic values that guide a firm’s behavior • Codes of ethics: written standards of behavior to which everyone in the organization must subscribe

  6. Consumerism: People Fighting Back • The social movement directed toward protecting consumers from harmful business practices • Consumer Bill of Rights: the right to be safe, be informed, be heard, and choose freely

  7. Ethics in the Marketing Mix • Making the product safe • Pricing the product fairly • Promoting the product ethically • Making the product available ethically

  8. Doing It Right: Promoting Social Responsibility • Social responsibility: organizations engaging in activities that have a positive effect on society and promote public good

  9. Doing It Right: Promoting Social Responsibility (cont’d) • Serving the Environment • Serving Society: Cause Marketing • Serving the Community:Promoting Cultural Diversity

  10. Global Marketing • World Trade: the flow of goods/services among different countries – the value of all exports/imports of the world’s nations • Countertrade: trading products between countries or supplying goods in return for tax breaks from local government (accounts for 25% of all world trade)

  11. Making the Decision to Go Global • “Go” or “no go”: is it in the best interest of the firm to remain in home market or to go where opportunities exist? • Which global markets are most attractive? • Key to the decisions: market conditions and creating a competitive advantage

  12. At the Borders • Protectionism: quotas, embargoes, and tariffs • World Trade Organization (WTO): to “help trade flow smoothly, freely, fairly, and predictably” • Economic communities promoting trade

  13. The Global Marketing Environment • A company going global must understand local conditions in the targeted country • Understanding the external environment: economic, competitive, technological, political, and cultural factors affect marketers’ global strategies

  14. The Economic Environment: Indicators of Economic Health • Economic health = market potential for firm • Gross domestic product (GDP): total dollar value of goods/services a country produces within its borders in a year • Per capita GDP: total GDP/number of citizens

  15. Indicators of Economic Health (cont’d) • Gross national product (GNP): the value of all goods/services produced by a country whether in its borders or not • Economic infrastructure: quality of country’s distribution, financial, and communications systems

  16. Level of Economic Development • Less developed country (LDC) • Economic base is often agricultural • Attractive markets for staples and inexpensive items • Developing countries • Economy shifts emphasis from agriculture to industry • Developed countries • Offer wide range of opportunities for international marketers

  17. The Business Cycle • Prosperity • Recession • Recovery • Depression • Inflation

  18. The Competitive Environment • Competitive intelligence: gathering and analyzing publicly available information about rivals to develop superior marketing strategies • Collected from news media, the Internet, and publicly available government documents

  19. The Competitive Environment (cont’d) • Competition in the microenvironment • Competition for consumer’s discretionary income • Competition among products to satisfy the same consumer’s needs/wants • Competition among brands offering similar goods/services on the basis of brand reputation or perceived benefits

  20. The Competitive Environment (cont’d) • Competition in the macroenvironment (overall structure of industry) • Monopoly • Oligopoly • Monopolistic competition • Perfect competition • The overall pattern of changes or fluctuations of an economy

  21. The Technological Environment • Technology provides firms with important competitive advantages • Patent: legal document giving inventors exclusive rights to produce/sell a particular invention in that country

  22. The Political and Legal Environment • Local, state, national, and global laws and regulations affect businesses • The law in the United States • To make sure businesses compete fairly with each other • To make sure that businesses don’t take advantage of consumers

  23. The Political and Legal Environment (cont’d) • Political Constraints on Trade • Economic sanctions • Nationalization • Expropriation • Regulatory constraints on trade • Local content rules: a proportion of a product must consist of components supplied by industries in the host country or economic community • Human rights issues

  24. The Sociocultural Environment • Demographics • Cultural values • Collectivist versus individualistic cultures • Norms, customs, mores, and conventions • Language • Ethnocentrism: the tendency to prefer products from one’s own culture

  25. How “Global” Should a Global Marketing Strategy Be? (cont’d) • Exporting • Contractual agreements • Licensing • Franchising • Strategic alliances • Joint venture • Direct investment • Born-global firms

  26. Global Marketing: Choosing a Marketing Mix Strategy • Standardization vs. localization • Standardization: offer the same products in all markets • Localization: offer a customized marketing mix for each country

  27. Global Marketing: Choosing a Marketing Mix Strategy (cont’d) • Product decisions • Straight extension strategy • Product adaptation strategy • Product invention strategy • Backward invention • Promotion decisions: whether or not to modify promotions

  28. Global Marketing: Choosing a Marketing Mix Strategy (cont’d) • Price decisions • Free trade zones • Gray market goods • Dumping • Distribution decisions

  29. Real People, Real Choices • Tupperware Brands Corporation (Rick Goings) • Rick chose option 2: Utilize public relations • Since the campaign launched in April 2005, Tupperware has seen a significant increase in the number of media exposures it has gotten

  30. Marketing in Action Case:You Make the Call • What is the decision facing New Balance? • What factors are important in understanding this decision situation? • What are the alternatives? • What decision(s) do you recommend? • What are some ways to implement your recommendation?

  31. Keeping It Real: Fast-Forward to Next Class Decision Time at Plan-It Marketing • Meet Cindy Tungate, president Plan-it Marketing, a marketing research firm • Plan-it’s client Priceline needs help in planning its business • The decision: What marketing research strategy will maximize results for Priceline?

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